, and i hope make these conditions safer for us. we talked a lot about those at the top. millions of dollars being spent. but there are other important jobs that are open, the legislators. >> that's right. we have the entire, you know, ticket here. constitutional offices. and i think before we get into a discussion about the issues, there's a couple of things that are really important to look at. there's the anti-incumbent wave throughout the country. democrats have a 13 percentage point registration advantage in this state. so whoever you are if you are a republican running, it's going to be hard to get out the vote. and as you mentions, a lot of the folks running are lawmakers already. they might be putting on the ballot that they, you know, whatever their past job was. but a lot of them really are part of the status quo. start at the second top of the ticket. lieutenant governor, mayor gachb newsom, san francisco mayor versus abel maldonado. he's only been in that position for a few months. a state senator before. and this is rea